bosszant

• to get sy's goat, to play sy up, to set sy on edge, to set sy's nerves on edge, to stroke sy the wrong way, to stroke sy's hair the wrong way, to twist the tail of sy

• to drive sy round the bend

• aggravating, annoying, bothersome, disagreeable, disappointing, exasperating, galling, invidious, irking, irksome, nettlesome, pesky, pestilent, provocative, trying, vexatious, vexing

• aggravation, harassment, vexation

• twitted

• aggravatingly, annoyingly

• to be displeased at

• asshole, hair in one's neck

• hang-up

• contrariously, contrariwise

• to be a thorn in sy's flesh

• tryingness

• to anger, to infuriate, to irritate

• aggravation, exasperation

• to get a rise out of sy, to get sy up on his ears, to take a rise out of sy

• the criticism nettled him

• balk